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Black Friday deals are already here (no, we don't know where the year went either) and they include discounts on some of our favorite phones. Notably, the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra is currently down to $950 from $1,300.
The Ultra came out in early 2024 and quickly became our choice for best premium Android phone. It scored an 89 in our review thanks to features like its long battery life â we often had over 50 percent left after 24 hours.
It has a titanium frame and a 6.8-inch OLED panel that peaks at 2,60
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Kristen Radtke / The Verge Bluesky feels like the big winner right now. Iâve been covering Bluesky ever since I got my invite in April 2023. Iâve felt the platform has always had promise, especially with features like feeds with custom algorithms and the ability to let users pick their own moderation filters. But for a long while, it didnât have the critical mass of users that I could follow... Read more âș
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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention this week. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/what-to-read-this-weekend-a-visual-history-of-futurama-and-more-193047965.html?src=rss Read more âș
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Police in Florida arrested a man on grand theft charges for a fake Elon Musk Facebook scam that duped an elderly woman out of $250,000. Read more âș
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iPhone users who want the smartwatch experience without shelling out a fortune have a great option in the Apple Watch SE, and the wearable is cheaper than ever right now thanks to a Black Friday deal. The Apple Watch SE has dropped to $169 at Amazon. That's a discount of 32 percent or $80. This is a new record-low price for the 40mm GPS variant. However, it's an all-time-low only... Read more âș
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Musk made a similar comment on social media years before he acquired X (then Twitter) in 2022. Read more âș
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After a series of cybersecurity challenges this year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company needs a culture change. Read more âș
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Pre-Black Friday sales see the Crucial T705 fall to $240 (2TB), making it a great choice for enthusiasts looking to upgrade. Read more âș
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The Times sued OpenAI in December, arguing that the company used its articles without permission to train ChatGPT. Read more âș
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Trump ally Elon Musk publicly threw his weight behind Howard Lutnick for Treasury secretary. Trump went with Scott Bessent instead. Read more âș
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Instead of focusing on chatbots, a new study reveals an automated way to breach LLM-driven robots "with 100 percent success," according to IEEE Spectrum. "By circumventing safety guardrails, researchers could manipulate self-driving systems into colliding with pedestrians and robot dogs into hunting for harmful places to detonate bombs..." [The researchers] have developed RoboPAIR, an algorithm designed to attack any LLM-controlled robot. In experiments with three different robotic systems â the... Read more âș
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These Black Friday deals are a great opportunity to upgrade your computers without breaking the bank. Read more âș
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James Acaster opens up about his fears of doing standup comedy again: hecklers, people not laughing and working through his own insecurities. Read more âș
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Sanwa introduces a magnetically detachable Ethernet cable to the Japanese market. Read more âș
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After making $19.2 million in advance screenings, the movie is reportedly heading for a domestic debut of $120 million. Read more âș
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Kia America COO says ending tax incentives on EVs would have a negative impact on U.S. jobs and the whole auto industry. Read more âș
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Microsoftâs new Game Assist browser overlay can automatically surface tips and tricks for you. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Edge Game Assist, a new Edge-powered in-game browser overlay, is available for beta testing in Windows 11. The âgame-awareâ overlay lives in the Microsoft Game Bar and is designed to automatically find and show you links to tips and guides for the game youâre playing, using the Edge... Read more âș
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Samsung's two foldable smartphones, the Z Flip 6 and Z Fold 6, are now available at record low prices. Read more âș
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Bluesky has passed the 20 million user mark as the app continues its recent surge in growth. The decentralized service, which reached 15 million users less than a week ago, has just about tripled its user base in the last three months. Though itâs still far smaller than its rivals Threads and X, Blueskyâs current momentum is notable. The app has had several days over the last week where it... Read more âș
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After a judge on Thursday ordered an evidentiary hearing into The Onion's winning bid to purchase Infowars, Alex Jonesâ site resumed operations and claimed the sale has been blocked. But Onion CEO Ben Collins countered this in an update posted on Bluesky and X on Saturday, writing, âWe left the hearing with clear next steps to complete the sale.â According to Collins, a court date has been set for a... Read more âș
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Two undersea communications cables in the Baltic Sea have been knocked offline, and at least one appears to have been physically cut. CNN received confirmation from a local telecom company that a cable between Lithuania and Sweden was cut on Sunday morning. A second cable, about 60 to 65 miles from the first, routes communications between Finland and Germany. The cause of that outage has yet to be determined, but... Read more âș
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I can't stop staring at Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Whether I'm exploring the game's home base in the dream-like Fade, or a forest shimmering with golden leaves and wild magical energy, the game simply looks gorgeous. And, if you've got the graphical horsepower to see it, it also delivers some of the most sumptuous ray tracing I've ever seen. There's a level of polish across every aspect of the game,... Read more âș
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William Shatner, who once sparred with Engadget over Twitterâs verification policy, has finally reprised his most famous role. Captain Kirk is back in the short film 765874 - Unification. This eight-minute story is live now on YouTube and follows the events of Star Trek: Generations, which was the last time Shatner donned his Starfleet uniform. The short was made by a graphics company called OTOY, along with Paramount and Shatner... Read more âș
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As people leave or deactivate their X accounts, there's been meaningful growth for alternative platforms like Meta's Threads and underdog Bluesky. Despite the huge gap in both user numbers and funding between the two, Threads seems to be borrowing from Bluesky's feature set to prevent it from becoming competitive. The Verge reported that Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, announced that Threadsâ algorithm is getting a ârebalancingâ to âprioritize content... Read more âș
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Sony announced that it will run a beta test for cloud streaming on its PlayStation Portal gaming handheld. The feature will begin rolling out in an update today, with Europe due to get it starting on Wednesday. Only PlayStation Plus Premium members will be able to access cloud streaming during the beta test, but it's a promising sign that Sony is finally working on this function, even though it took... Read more âș
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Hackers breached an online course founded by far-right influencer, and accused human trafficker, Andrew Tate, according to reporting by Daily Dot. The hackers captured data on more than 800,000 users and revealed the email addresses of around 325,000 of them. Tateâs self-proclaimed âonline universityâ hosts courses on fitness, finance and content creation, all for the low price of $50 per month. The site currently claims it has over 113,000 active... Read more âș
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday present great opportunities to get a bunch of tech for less, and some of the best deals you can typically find are on charging gear and mobile accessories. Anker makes some of our favorites in both departments, and this year a ton of Anker gear has been discounted as part of the Black Friday deals. Whether youâre looking for a new power bank to take... Read more âș
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Season passes are one of the most common ways to generate revenue for games such as Fortnite or Call of Duty that want players to keep returning day after day, month after month. This week, PC game platform Steam has rolled out support for this monetization approach. The Valve-owned platform clarified its policy about what it considers a season pass, as well as implementing rules for how developers should communicate... Read more âș
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